Definition of surrender

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Surrender (v. i.) To give up one's self into the power of another; to yield; as, the enemy, seeing no way of escape, surrendered at the first summons..

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Yield :: Yield (v. i.) To give up the contest; to submit; to surrender; to succumb.
Submit :: Submit (v. i.) To yield one's person to the power of another; to give up resistance; to surrender.
Surrender :: Surrender (v. t.) To yield to any influence, emotion, passion, or power; -- used reflexively; as, to surrender one's self to grief, to despair, to indolence, or to sleep..
Render :: Render (n.) A surrender.
Capitulate :: Capitulate (v. t.) To surrender or transfer, as an army or a fortress, on certain conditions..
Starve :: Starve (v. t.) To distress or subdue by famine; as, to starvea garrison into a surrender..
Capitulation :: Capitulation (n.) The instrument containing the terms of an agreement or surrender.
Fall :: Fall (n.) The surrender of a besieged fortress or town ; as, the fall of Sebastopol..
Requisition :: Requisition (n.) A formal demand made by one state or government upon another for the surrender or extradition of a fugitive from justice.
Surrender :: Surrender (n.) The giving up of a principal into lawful custody by his bail.
Extradition :: Extradition (n.) The surrender or delivery of an alleged criminal by one State or sovereignty to another having jurisdiction to try charge.
Strike :: Strike (v. t.) To lower; to let or take down; to remove; as, to strike sail; to strike a flag or an ensign, as in token of surrender; to strike a yard or a topmast in a gale; to strike a tent; to strike the centering of an arch..
Abdicate :: Abdicate (v. t.) To surrender or relinquish, as sovereign power; to withdraw definitely from filling or exercising, as a high office, station, dignity; as, to abdicate the throne, the crown, the papacy..
Deliver :: Deliver (v. t.) To give or transfer; to yield possession or control of; to part with (to); to make over; to commit; to surrender; to resign; -- often with up or over, to or into..
Remise :: Remise (v. t.) To send, give, or grant back; to release a claim to; to resign or surrender by deed; to return..
Summons :: Summons (v.) A demand to surrender.
Remission :: Remission (n.) The act of remitting, surrendering, resigning, or giving up..
Delivery :: Delivery (n.) The act of delivering up or over; surrender; transfer of the body or substance of a thing; distribution; as, the delivery of a fort, of hostages, of a criminal, of goods, of letters..
Surrender :: Surrendering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Surrende.
Surrenderor :: Surrenderer (n.) One who surrenders.
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